Golden Rule

do unto others as you would have them do unto you, command based on sayings in the Old and New testament

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Noun
1. a command based on Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount; "Whatsoever ye would that men do unto you, do you even so unto them" (Mathew 7:12)
(hypernym) teaching, precept, commandment

Noun
1. any important rule; "the golden rule of teaching is to be clear"
(hypernym) rule, prescript

Golden Rule In the West, applied to the moral teaching as voiced by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, and stated by him to be all the law and the prophets: "All things whatsoever ye would that man should do to you, do ye even so to them" (Matt 7:12); "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise" (Luke 6:31).
This teaching is in all the religions of the world, expressing the law of our higher nature, which is love and harmony, as contrasted with the law of our lower nature, which makes for personal separateness and sets the individual at variance with his neighbor. Its realization in thought and conduct is an indispensable requisite to attainment on the path of wisdom and liberation. The following are selected from many similar teachings:
Hillel, Jewish Rabbi (b. 50 B.C.): "Do not to others what you would not like others to do to you."
Aristotle, Greek (385B.C.): "We should conduct ourselves towards others as we would have them act towards us."
Pittacus, Greek (650 B.C.): "Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him."
Zoroaster, Persian: "Hold it not meet to do unto others what thou wouldst not desire done unto thyself; do that unto the people, which when done to thyself, is not disagreeable unto these."
Confucius, China: "Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not unto another what you would not have him do unto you."
The Mahabharata, India: "This is the sum of all true righteousness -- treat others as thou wouldst thyself be treated. Do nothing to thy neighbor which hereafter thou wouldst not have thy neighbor do to thee.

A rule of statutory or legal document interpretation which allows a shift from the ordinary sense of as word(s) if the overall content of the document demands it. - (read more on Golden Rule)